Address: 84 Geneva St. (pp.47)

Vernon's City of St. Catharines Street, Alphabetical Business and Miscellaneous Directory for the Year 1916. Henry Vernon & Son, 1916. ia801601.us.archive.org/24/items/vernstcatharines00vernuoft/vernstcatharines00vernuoft.pdf

"The history of the Zion Baptist Church in St. Catharines begins with Elder Washington Christian, a West Indian from New York, who founded the First Baptist Church in Toronto in 1826 when he organized local worshippers along the north shores of Lake Ontario. The popularity of his congregation grew rapidly throughout the 1830's as word of its formation spread across Canada West. 

Christian was responsible for establishing the First Baptist parish in the city of St. Catharines in 1838. Members of the city's Baptist community constructed a chapel, the Zion Baptist Church, on a piece of land granted to the congregation by William Hamilton Merritt in the early 1840's. The church building was located on Geneva St., just south of North St., and it was completed in 1844." 

"Zion Baptist Church." The Underground Railroad St. Catherines. www.freedomtrail.ca/st_catharines/zion.html